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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness - Godfr
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- Godfrey-Smith, Peter
- ISBN
- 9780374537197
- Book Title
- Other Minds : the Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Science, Medical, Philosophy
- Topic
- Neurology, Mind & Body, Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / Marine Biology
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 8.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In captivity, octopuses have been known to identify individual human keepers, raid neighboring tanks for food, turn off lightbulbs by spouting jets of water, plug drains, and make daring escapes. How is it that a creature with such gifts evolved through an evolutionary lineage so radically distant from our own? What does it mean that evolution built minds not once but at least twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? In Other Minds , Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how subjective experience crept into being--how nature became aware of itself. As Godfrey-Smith stresses, it is a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared. Tracking the mind's fitful development, Godfrey-Smith shows how unruly clumps of seaborne cells began living together and became capable of sensing, acting, and signaling. As these primitive organisms became more entangled with others, they grew more complicated. The first nervous systems evolved, probably in ancient relatives of jellyfish; later on, the cephalopods, which began as inconspicuous mollusks, abandoned their shells and rose above the ocean floor, searching for prey and acquiring the greater intelligence needed to do so. Taking an independent route, mammals and birds later began their own evolutionary journeys. But what kind of intelligence do cephalopods possess? Drawing on the latest scientific research and his own scuba-diving adventures, Godfrey-Smith probes the many mysteries that surround the lineage. How did the octopus, a solitary creature with little social life, become so smart? What is it like to have eight tentacles that are so packed with neurons that they virtually "think for themselves"? What happens when some octopuses abandon their hermit-like ways and congregate, as they do in a unique location off the coast of Australia? By tracing the question of inner life back to its roots and comparing human beings with our most remarkable animal relatives, Godfrey-Smith casts crucial new light on the octopus mind--and on our own.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374537194
ISBN-13
9780374537197
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234906060
Product Key Features
Book Title
Other Minds : the Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Neurology, Mind & Body, Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / Marine Biology
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Science, Medical, Philosophy
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Qm451.G58 2016
Table of Content
1. Meetings Across the Tree of Life Two Meetings and a Departure ~ Outlines 2. A History of Animals Beginnings ~ Living Together ~ Neurons and Nervous Systems ~ The Garden ~ Senses ~ The Fork 3. Mischief and Craft In a Sponge Garden ~ Evolution of the Cephalopods ~ Puzzles of Octopus Intelligence ~ Visiting Octopolis ~ Nervous Evolution ~ Body and Control ~ Convergence and Divergence 4. From White Noise to Consciousness What It's Like ~ Evolution of Experience ~ Latecomer versus Transformation ~ The Case of the Octopus 5. Making Colors The Giant Cuttlefish ~ Making Colors ~ Seeing Colors ~ Being Seen ~ Baboon and Squid ~ Symphony 6. Our Minds and Others From Hume to Vygotsky ~ Word Made Flesh ~ Conscious Experience ~ Full Circle 7. Experience Compressed Decline ~ Life and Death ~ A Swarm of Motorcycles ~ Long and Short Lives ~ Ghosts 8. Octopolis An Armful of Octopuses ~ Origins of Octopolis ~ Parallel Lines ~ The Oceans Notes Index
Copyright Date
2016
Lccn
2016-016696
Dewey Decimal
612.8
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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